Category: Black Politics

Left: An example of the Enquirer’s handiwork during the 2016 Republican primaries. Right: More recently, the Enquirer seems to have suddenly soured on Trump pal Michael Cohen. I wonder why?American Media Inc. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported that the National Enquirer has been served…

Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center in 2014.Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s still widespread uncertainty about how exactly the executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday will change his policy of separating and detaining immigrant families. But one…

Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Whether schoolchildren in DeSoto County, Mississippi, are paddled varies by their race. Black students are almost two and a half times more likely than whites to endure the corporal punishment permitted under school district policy…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at New York City’s Laguardia Airport late Wednesday night to greet inbound flights from Texas carrying displaced migrant children. They held signs offering words of love and support, and criticism of controversial family separation policies at the US-Mexico border. The scene outside…

Children in Mylar survival blanketsLenin Nolly/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The president may have signed an executive order intended to end family separation at the border, but immigrant advocates aren’t quieting down. On Thursday morning, dozens of faith leaders, children, and protesters gathered at the Russell Senate office Building to demonstrate…

President Donald Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the White House in 2017. Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On June 17th, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff retweeted images from a CBS reporter of a detention facility in McAllen, Texas where children slept on the floor, covered in emergency blankets.…